Terry Rodgers

aeroplastics

Never in a million years could you have guessed that Terry Rodgers lives in Ohio. Represented by TORCH Gallery in Amsterdam, showing currently at TORCH's sister gallery, Aeroplastics, in Brussels, plus numerous solo and group exhibitions across Europe are some of the earthly indicators that make you think "European contemporary artist". Of course, there's graphic intensity in the subject matter. Rodgers creates in paint the spector of new money, gone terrible and out of control, careering towards extreme, with debaucherous scenes featuring upper-class blasé about sex, drugs, and politics. The powerful and the powerless, exercising their demons for different reasons, unite in one canvas. It's dirty and desperate, haunted by the truth. All this together, and you would assume Mr Rodgers lives near a brothel on Monnikenstraat.